PHP 5.4 is reached its end of life with no further security updates to be published after September. With this, we will be upgrading our PHP instances to version 5.6 on 11 September.
PHP 5.4 has been amazing. But PHP 5.5. and 5.6 have been even more amazing iterations. Get ready for better performance and many other incremental improvements to the ultimate (at least medium term) goal of PHP 7.
While most existing PHP applications will function fine under PHP 5.6, please do your due diligence:
- If using an open source application such as Joomla or WordPress, please upgrade to the latest version. You should be doing this in any case to keep your website secure.
- If you have a custom PHP application, verify backward compatibility in the PHP documentation for version 5.5 and version 5.6.